There’s been a certain amount of chatter over Time‘s decision to finally move from a Monday publishing schedule to a Friday publishing schedule. I’m not a marketing executive nor an ad rep, so I don’t much know whether it makes good business sense, but while cleaning up the week’s mail today, I came across my […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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Third Lie’s a Charm
(Posted by John.) I have family in the (Canadian) media, so I’m always wary of out-and-out condemnations of the news business for allegations of incomepetence, ideologically favoring the right, or many of the other accusations that get thrown around. I admit that family ties aren’t the most logically sound reasons for caution, but what can […]
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The California Example
(Posted by John.) For those of us who live in other jurisdictions and are bizarrely obsessed with electricity policy (yo) California really does stand out as an incredible example of what efficiency and conservation can do. Kevin Drum has a great short post on what California has managed to accomplish, notwithstanding Cheney’s admonition that efficiency […]
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Governor? What Is It You Want Me To Do, Exactly?
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Matt Singer and the good folks at the Progressive States Network send odd news about Haley Barbour of Mississippi: this is a man who refused to posthumously pardon an innocentblack man wrongly convicted in the Jim Crow era because he thought apardon would send the wrong message. The Governor’s office […]
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The Power of Kindness
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf I really liked this letter to Andrew Sullivan from a Gulf War veteran who remembers how lots of Iraqi soldiers gave up, back in that war, without firing any shots. They knew that if you surrendered to Americans, you’d be fed well, treated kindly, and not tortured. Looking back, I […]
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Phobic Nation
Shakes here… President Bush, yesterday morning: It’s a dangerous world. I wish it wasn’t that way. I wish I could tell the American people, don’t worry about it, they’re not coming again. But they are coming again. Although I could actually write an entire (and rather lengthy) post on how Bush’s “Terror Rhetoric” is beginning […]
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Hillary’s Rochester Coattails
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math The news that Democrats have abandoned hopes of significant gains in Upstate New York is dispiritng, to say the least. Hillary has $25M or $30M in the bank at this point, facing essentially zero opposition. In the Governor’s race, Elliott Spitzer (D) is headed for a landslide as well. […]
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Werewolf Picks 2006
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf With the 2006 elections approaching, I thought I’d lay out theDemocratic House campaigns I’ve been giving money to. So far this yearI’ve only given money in House races, partly because Million Buck Chuck has won us a huge fundraising advantage in the Senate. Winning one chamber will be great, just […]
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How’d He Do That?
Kevin writes a post I’ve been literally meaning to write. No kidding, I was going to talk about George Skelton and everything. Was even going to end the same way, wondering how you can oppose a law because it’ll work too well. Nuts. Anyway, important topic: Go read.
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SOMEHOW, I DOUBT…
SOMEHOW, I DOUBT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WILL NOTICE. This is a great post by Kevin. Over the past couple of decades, California’s per capita energy usage has actually declined, even while the nation’s shot up. Our smog levels have fallen and our air is cleaner. Why? Because we passed laws — regulations — making […]